The conventional progressive wisdom is that the Trump Administration will be bad for cities and for transit users. But in recent decades, a unified Republican government has been better for public transit than a divided government.

An efficient and equitable transport system must be diverse to serve diverse travel demands. Planners need better tools to quantify and communicate the benefits of walking, cycling and public transit to sometimes skeptical decision makers.

The City After Abandonment, New from Penn Press

University of Pennsylvania Press

The City After Abandonment, a new volume in the University of Pennsylvania Press City in the 21st Century series, looks at former manufacturing centers of that have suffered such dramatic losses in population and employment that urban experts have put them in a class by themselves, calling them "rustbelt cities," "shrinking cities," and more recently "legacy cities."

This collection of essays, edited by Margaret Dewar and June Manning Thomas at the University of Michigan, addresses important questions about shrinking urban communities. What are cities becoming after abandonment? What should abandoned areas of cities become?

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